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tomcat

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A male cat.
  • intransitive verb To be sexually active with more than one partner. Used of men.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A male cat, especially a full-grown male cat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A tom, a male cat.
  • verb To prowl for sexual gratification.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun male cat

Etymologies

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From a story by an anonymous author published in 1760 called The Life and Adventures of a Cat in which the male cat, then known as a ram cat, was called Tom. (Reference: Desmond Morris, Catwatching.)

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Examples

  • The tomcat was his usual, unapproachable self, lashing his tail as if to silence her any time Layne attempted to address a comment to him.

    Leftover Love Janet Daily 1984

  • The tomcat was his usual, unapproachable self, lashing his tail as if to silence her any time Layne attempted to address a comment to him.

    Leftover Love Janet Daily 1984

  • The tomcat was his usual, unapproachable self, lashing his tail as if to silence her any time Layne attempted to address a comment to him.

    Leftover Love Janet Daily 1984

  • The tomcat was his usual, unapproachable self, lashing his tail as if to silence her any time Layne attempted to address a comment to him.

    Leftover Love Janet Daily 1984

  • I used this command to create the keystore keytool - genkey - alias tomcat - keyalg RSA - keystore/etc/tomcat6/keystore and answered the prompts

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community Styrofoam 2010

  • I am looking for the simple recipe for an aspect of the genus felis domestica, in particular that of the male of the species, commonly known as the 'tomcat'.

    So much tidier than bloodshed 2007

  • Must I log in as user 'tomcat' anytime I build an application so that the owner of the WAR file will be tomcat and thus the tomcat service will have access to the WAR file?

    LinuxQuestions.org JohnRock 2009

  • Must I log in as user 'tomcat' anytime I build an application so that the owner of the WAR file will be tomcat and thus the tomcat service will have access to the WAR file?

    LinuxQuestions.org 2009

  • I found on another forum this command: kill -9 ` ps - aef | grep 'tomcat' | grep - v grep | awk '{print $2}' `

    LinuxQuestions.org dstu 2010

  • I found on another forum this command: kill -9 ` ps - aef | grep 'tomcat' | grep - v grep | awk '{print $2}' `

    LinuxQuestions.org dstu 2010

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  • jinglebelljosie commented on the word tomcat

    a woman-chaser

    August 22, 2008

  • john commented on the word tomcat

    “The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep wing aircraft. The F-14 was the United States Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor and tactical reconnaissance platform from 1974 to 2006.�? More on Wikipedia.

    December 30, 2008